Jesus Christ Superbrunch - 2008!

Well, it was just as awesome and hilarious and Holy as you would expect it to be. On Easter Sunday, 2008, me and 9 other friends gathered at Ben and Carrie's beautiful apartment for brunch and a viewing of the 1973 movie musical, "Jesus Christ Superstar". (Dedicated blog readers will note that I credited the musical to Sondheim in my previous post. It's actually Andrew Lloyd Webber. Whoops. Sorry about that.)

Everyone brought something to contribute to the meal. Lisa prepped a lovely and delicious fruit tray with oranges, grapes and strawberries. My Canadian Friend, Jenn, brought Canadian Ham (which I was surprised to learn is NOT called Canadian Ham in Canada. They call it "Bacon". Crazy Canucks!) I brought Grands Biscuits. Ben and Carrie made ham. Erin brought eggs and Natalie brought sweet potatoes. Sayjal brought coffee and her French Press. Louie brought champagne and orange juice and Chrissie brought a delicious apple-bread. Matt and Brandy brought a matzoh dish and turkey bacon. Ben also hid candies all around the apartment, including the Holy Grail of Easter Candy, the unholy Reese's Peanut Butter Egg.

While a few folks cooked in the kitchen, we warmed up with a half viewing of the musical "Godspell".



We all took turns being delighted or confused by that particular day-glow monstrosity.

Want to see a whole room of people entranced by the majesty of "Jesus Christ Superstar"?



As it turns out, Natalie is also a superfan of the movie. She and I sang along with the film and a couple of times, she would stop the movie and answer our questions about how what we were seeing actually related to what was in The Bible. (Natalie knew quite a bit about that too.) All of which just enhanced the movie for us.



Everyone filled up on the food. A couple of folks went back for seconds, as best they could. The Matzoh and the Canadian Bacon were both big hits.



After we cleared away the food, we made one more hot rack of fresh biscuits and ate that while we sipped mimosas and watched the rest of the movie together. People generally seemed to like the movie. All of the chatter would die down during "I don't know how to love him" and the Crucifixion. After the movie ended, I was pleasantly surprised to see that people didn't just leave. We actually hung out and chatted for another hour and a half, gossiping and just generally catching up.

All in all, everyone had a really grand Easter holiday.



And because it's obligatory, we took a "funny" picture too.



Oh, and we've agreed to do it all again, next year.

In His Name...

Cheers,
Mr.B